The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01

by Edmund Burke

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Genres: Philosophy, History, Nonfiction, Classics

469 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 28, 2010

About the author

After A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful , aesthetic treatise of 1757, Edmund Burke, also noted Irish British politician and writer, supported the cause of the American colonists in Parliament but took a more conservative position in his Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790.

Edmund Burke, an Anglo statesman, author, orator, and theorist, served for many years in the House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. People remember mainly the dispute with George III, great king, and his leadership and strength. The latter made Burke to lead figures, dubbed the "old" faction of the Whig against new Charles James Fox. Burke published a work and attempted to define triggering of emotions and passions in a person. Burke worked and founded the Annual Register, a review. People often regard him as the Anglo founder.

Reviews

[Brian Eshleman · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are too many sections of dull detail for those not especially in Burke's political battles in his own time for me to give this five stars, but when he is good at writing for the ages, he is very, very good.

I thought his passages on why we value what we do as individuals and as a society provided a great foundation for understanding the bills that he fought for and against. He would be gratified, I think, his writing is still relevant precisely as a validation of his core belief that human nature does not change even when some details of a culture do.